I recently had a complete HDD failure of my aptosid system drive, Fortunately I have backup files separately so data file recovery is not issue.

However after doing a new install of a KDE-Lite 2011-01 system & then
a apt-get dist-upgrade off the net as per the aptosid manual I find that a number of shared libraries are not installed and programs cannot run.

For example:

class-mail : can't find libept.so.0

sylpheed : cant find libgpgme.so.11

kmail : libgpgme-pthread.so.11

libre-office : libstlport-gcc.so.4.6

I'm sure there will be others missing.

How do i get these file installed ? and from where ?

This has not been an issue with either sidux or aptosid before and I have done dist-upgrades successfully previously.

you did not do what i said, otherwise you would know if your CD is sane.
and no, a clean install in no matter what time means nothing at all.
au contraire, strange errors like that point to b0rken install media.

why not try putting the ISO onto a USB stick following the instructions in the manual, booting the live image from it and do a new install (be sure to format the partition(s) aptosid will be installed to).

dragoncity

Post subject:Posted: 10.03.2011, 00:17

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I have reinstalled from the same cd and install some packages to see if they would install.
claws-mail installed ok using apt-get and I noticed a number of libraries also installed.
Claws-mail works.

The only difference with this install was that I made sure the / directory was re-formatted from the installer, previously I
had used gparted ( from the installer) to created & formatted /, swap, /home and figured that a second formmatting was not required,
Perhaps it is ?

Now to re-update the system!
Thanks for all your advice, but we'll never know what really happened.

devil

Post subject:Posted: 10.03.2011, 08:55

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the / directory is formated in any case.

greetz
devil

dragoncity

Post subject:Posted: 10.03.2011, 13:18

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No, the default is to format, but you can deselect the 'tick' box in the installer